Director, Engineering

Bridgeway is seeking an accomplished Director, Engineering to lead the ISSI-platform engineering organization. This role owns the strategic direction, operational execution, and people leadership for multiple engineering teams, driving alignment between engineering investment and business priorities. The ideal candidate combines deep technical credibility, proven experience leading leaders, and the strategic judgment to balance long-term platform investment with delivery commitments in a fast-paced environment.

This is a remote position. East coast candidates preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic and operational roadmap for the engineering organization, translating business strategy into departmental goals, tactical plans, and resourcing decisions.
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable a team of managers, individual contributors, offshore developers, ensuring consistent people leadership, performance management, and career development across the department.
• Manage the department's budget, headcount, and resource planning; develop and report on KPIs, and business outcomes to the VP of Engineering and broader leadership team.
• Serve as a key liaison between executive leadership and the engineering department, representing engineering priorities, risks, and progress at the leadership-team level.
• Set and champion engineering best practices across teams, including code quality standards, testing, and architecture governance, ensuring consistency across multiple teams.
• Partner with other business leaders to align technical strategy and execution with organizational objectives, and to shape multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across the department.
• Coach and develop managers and individual contributors, building bench strength and succession readiness.
• Oversee delivery of high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions across teams, ensuring on-time delivery in an agile environment and resolving cross-team dependencies and escalations.
• Anticipate and address complex organizational challenges, including navigating ambiguity, resource constraints, and competing priorities across teams.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, leading the evaluation and adoption of relevant innovations — including generative AI tools — and setting clear expectations for their use in day-to-day engineering work to drive productivity and quality outcomes.
• Own hiring strategy and workforce planning for the department, including hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluation of direct reports and oversight of hiring practices across teams.